Calgary - CBC News

Alberta school boards say the provincial government should retain an opt-out system for sexual health education in schools, as politicians debate a bill that would require families to opt students in.

Tens of thousands of people, primarily on Vancouver Island, were without power overnight after hurricane-force wind gustsfrom a "bomb cyclone" system blasted southwest B.C.on Tuesday night.

All four victim's are believed to have attended the Brentwood Medical Clinic, where 46-year-old Phu Truong Vu was employed as a general practitioner, according to a police release.

After 18 hours of deliberations, aCalgary jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder and his female friend of manslaughter in the case of a victim found dead in a southwest alley.